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LETTERS Dear President Perkinson: I am writing to inform you about a matter of growing concern among working per sons in this area. During earlier years, the college through its faculty and staff made inestimable contributions toward the social betterment of the coun ty. St. Andrews College in directly helped to curb bootlegging through the in troduction of legal control of alcoholic beverages, it was in strumental in bringing black persons into the mainstream of public life much earlier than in neighboring counties, it brought about more open registrations for voting, it assisted in saving the masses of people literally millions of dollars through the several defeats of the regressive op tional local sales tax, and it has generally assisted toward reducing a pervasive pater nalism that has predominated in the region. In more recent times, however, there has been an evident reversal of this trend. Faculty members have become more reluctant to become involved in con troversy, there has been an assiduous courting of wealth and business, ^d there has been neglect of working elements. The President him self serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce and continually identifies with business elements, but he is seldom if ever seen at func tions sponsored by racial or working groups. According to reliable sources, a student meeting was arbitrarily can celled by the administration at which speakers had been invited to explain the problems associated with J.P. Stevens & Company. There is general un derstanding of the need for the college to attract economic assistance, but the question is whether St. An drews is in the process of compromising the openness that is essential to any superior educational program. Is it essential to survival that there be a repressed faculty, that business be courted to the neglect of people, that only certain favored elements be welcomed? This is an attempt to inform you of a concern. I am writing because of my commitment to the real progress of St. An drews Presbyterian College. Sincerely, Benjamiii Norton Chairperson -The United Workers of Scotland County Letter to the Editor; I received a copy of Ben Norton’s letter last week, with the request that Ishareit with the students. I agree with Mr. Norton’s caicem, but wanted to clarify his statement about the student meeting being cancelled. On Tuesday, Feb. 151h, I received a call from Bob Ar nold of the Institute of Southern Studies, saying he would be in Laurinburg and would like to come out to the college and talk to the studen ts. I saw it as a good chance for students to learn something about the labor situation at the J. P. Stevens Company, and agreed to set up a meeting. My signs though, were poorly worded and consequently were misin terpreted by the Business Manager, who thought people were coming on campus to recruit students to work directly with the boycott. His concern was that students would be getting a biased viewpoint, and might be con vinced without hearing the other side of the matter. He thus sent word to me that we should cancel the meeting or hold it off-campus. I was sick, couldn’t argue with him, and couldn’t find anyone to run the meeting for me, so I can celled it. Hie next day, Mr. Stallings talked with President Perkin son and Dean Santa-Maria, and they decided it was alright for such meetings to be held on campus, provided students would be exposed to opposing viewpoints. We’re going to try again in a few weeks, and try to get someone from J. P. Stevens to come down and answer questions. I’m sorry this happened as it did - it put St. Andrews in a bad light and made a lot of people angry. It’s over and done with though, and I’m ready to bury the hatchet. Elizabeth Scott Director, PIRG Letter to the Editor; ‘In the February 17th Lance article about the sexuality seminars at St. Andrews, Graham Disque asks whether we will be the first society to reach equality for women. In answer to his question I suggest he read about the monumental achievements of equality for women in the People’s Republic of China. In China today there are provisions for health care, education, and child care for everyone. In contrast, in our country these rights are bought by those who can af ford them. Until we rid our selves of class distinctions such as these and achieve for all can we ever hope to achieve real equality for women. The U.S. is far behind in the world’s “race for equality. Cheryl Brown Professor, Psychology Dept. Letter to the Editor; After reading Thursday’s (February 17) letter to the editor I had the following reaction; I do not know what kind of mix up occurred between John Patton and Don McKenzie, but Stewart Swain obviously wins the prize for spreading false information and misleading his fellow students. I am thankful that most St. Andrews students have more intelligence than Swain gave them credit for. The memo posted for all students to read at the entrance of the cafeteria, was written by me at Donald McKenzie’s suggestiffli. It included my recommendation, endorsed by the Student Life Committee, that the Senate consider a revision from having the Dean of Students always be the advisor to the Judiciary Committee to a statement which permitted the Assitant Dean to serve in that capacity. The only prupose of the revision was to protect students and avoid overlapp since the Dean may sit on the Student-F acuity Appellate Court. Maria Santa-Maria Dean of Students Dear John; I thought it would be fitting to drop you a note and offer an explanation for the delay in some maintenance orders during the months of Decem ber and January. As you know, during these months we have had unusual and extensive breakdowns, placing additional demands on our maintenance staff. The maintenance staff has per formed these tasks with ex treme efficiency and at a great savings to the college. Even though these problems have been handled efficiently, it has required the main tenance staff to postpone routine maintenance jobs un til time would allow them to resume normal functions. I hope that we have no ad ditional major breakdowns to cause disruption of our nor mal maintenance routine. If this is true, I hope that it will enable our return to earlier response to maintenance inquiries. I would like to thank everyone on campus for their patience and understanding during these adverse cir cumstances. I believe everyone has been willing to try to understand the college’s problems and priorities. I can say that every effort has been and will continue to be made so that all maintenance inquiries are handled as quickly as possible and with the best results for the whole college community. Yours very truly, G. Barry Stallings Business Manager earMaeWeSr^^ Affairs Of The Heart Dear Mae: I never thought I would u. witmg to you for advice, but The Lance J(*n Patton i Editor Mike Kelly Managing Editor Knight Chamberlain Ass. Editor/Sports Sheikh Jagne Asst. Editor/Business Mark Powell Advertising Manager Billy Howard Photo Coordinator Ed Neely Events Coordinator Mickey Rk:hey External Circulation C. 0. Spann, Jr Internal Circulation Dr. W. J. Loftus Advisor Teresa Chavis Pat McNeeley Joe Mang Beth Cleveland Gibbs Moody Lisa WoUman Chet Naiman Rufus Poole Thom Johnson Holly Alien Graham Disque Woody Shepherd Wvnne Seeal Arthur Goodwvn Kim J(4inson is,™ To The St. Andrews Community, It disturbs me greatly, that so much filth has invaded the community- First, it was bathroom graffiti, then, the pornographic writing on the wall. Now it’s this obscene obsession with Mae West. Tell me you perverts, whoever you are, why must you be so inconsiderate? What about gallant efforts of the graduation committee to restore vitality to graduatirai exercises? Have you not spited them with your lewd suggestions! What about the Faculty and students who must read smut written on bathroom walls, about 84 year old women! Is nothing sacred? And what about the admission counselors who must explain this filth to prospective students? I have a feeling you’re just trying to attract more nymphos like yourselves! Mae West EDITORIAL Positive Change Through Evaluation We are fortunate at St. Andrews in having an open and progressive spirit concerning evaluation and change. Many other institutions suffer fnma a reliance on the traditional ap proach, failing to consider alternatives. But we do not rely on the traditiMial, or standard approach. We examine, evaluate, and if necessary, change our programs, policies, and other areas of life to provide the best system for all concerned. The recent grading system change (see story on page 1) is a case in point. Dick Prust, chainnan of the Elducational Policy subcommittee on learning evaluatim along with his fellow com mittee persons examined and evaluated the system, searching for problems and failure points. They designed the new system to correct the former’s shortcomings. The Ekiucational Policy Committee faculty agreed with their proposals and passed them. There had been no great student outcry for a change, but this committee did its job and now we are better off for its worit. Another committee that has done a great deal of work this year is the Student Services committee of the Student Govern ment, composed of Nadine Greenwood, Lisa Tillson, and Dorothy FiUmore. So far this year they have conducted 3 sur veys of the student body - on health, food, and security services here at the college. The knowledge that they gained from tiiese is being put into recommendations to improve these service. Dean of Students Maria Santa-Maria has aided and worked closely with this committee in its work. The recommendations resulting from their efforts will result in noticeable improve ments next year in these three important areas of student life. Without the evaluating and plannmg of committees like these, St. Andrews would be a far different, and probably wor se, place. The college has encouraged this trend by en couraging student input, especially Neal Bushoven’s St. An drews Studies, the most open (as far as student input is con cerned) academic department at St. Andrews. Also, people have not become defensive wheh they are question and their area evaluated, for they have not fallen prey to a of the change that could result from the evalua ■ Adaptatiffli, evaluation, and diange - these are what has kep St. Andrews unique and insured its survival for the years. Surely they will play an even more important and vi role in its future. Now Open In The College Union 8-12 P. M. r-*—ciiu mere's no \i*ere else to turn. You I’m a thirty-five-year oM I woman and I have never had ® a date with a man. It’s not that I don’t want to or that I 1 dai’t have the opportunity to i meet men; there are many at I tractive men in the office ''' where I work-some of them are even single. But whenever : I’m around men, I just clam ~ ip. Idffli’tknowwhattodoor ^ say. Can you help me? (]an ^you please tell me some ’ things I can do and say that will make men look at me the P way they look at you? ^ Sincerely, All Qammed Up y Dear Qam; i It isn’t what I do, but how I 1 do it. It isn’t what 1 say,... I how I say it, and how I look ^ when I do and say it. ^ Mae West THE RED LION
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